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33. Your ego's plan of self-attack, and the self-conflict behind every illusion

Saturday, May 27, 2017 2049 words 9 mins 6 secs

The big secret behind the ego's illusions, is that the ego is entirely a mode of SELF-attack. And this exactly ties into the revelation that "the secret to salvation is that you are but doing this to yourself."

The ego mind...

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32. Victims are attackers, and you're just attacking yourself

Wednesday, May 24, 2017 356 words 1 mins 34 secs

When someone is attacking, it will come across as them being attacked by you. And thereby they believe they are justified in attacking as though they themselves are not doing it at all.

Victim consciousness automatically means someone is trying to...

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31. Why you believe you deserve punishment and are scaring yourself

Sunday, May 14, 2017 761 words 3 mins 22 secs

If you're afraid, it's because you yourself believe that you deserve punishment.

It doesn't even matter if anyone else is going to come along and do something to you, or if events are going to transpire against you, or if something...

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30. You are attacking yourself indirectly

Thursday, May 04, 2017 306 words 1 mins 21 secs

Every time you believe you are attacking someone else and not yourself, you are attacking yourself indirectly.

Your attack is always self-attack. Your attack is never an attack on someone else at all.

If they were Christ, they would exhibit no symptoms...

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29. Giving up the need to blame others

Wednesday, May 03, 2017 1304 words 5 mins 47 secs

Lately I'm noticing more and more often, I just don't want to blame. I'm believing in "real sin" less and less.

I didn't see this coming, and it's not that I've been deliberately working on not being blameful. But I'm starting...

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28. The ego only ever attacks itself

Monday, May 01, 2017 516 words 2 mins 17 secs

The ego only attacks itself. When it targets a person, and it refers to some kind of identity that is the recipient of its attack, that identity is always comprised of egoic properties.

When it says "you are....", it's referring...

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27. Nobody has ever really attacked you

Saturday, Apr 29, 2017 1006 words 4 mins 28 secs

There was a man I posted a video about recently who killed several people. This man was hallucinating that the people were trying to kill him. In his self-defense, and terror, he thought he was completely sane in ending their...

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26. When someone attacks you and it has no effect

Tuesday, Apr 25, 2017 210 words 0 mins 56 secs

While enjoying the innocence and sinlessness of becoming aware that I did not "really" sin, a person began to verbally attack me.

It had absolutely no effect.

I found it interesting to see the complete distinction between who I was and what...

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25. Compassion when I'm hurting

Thursday, Apr 06, 2017 788 words 3 mins 30 secs

When I am upset, feeling unhappy, having a cry, feeling guilty or afraid, or whatever, Holy Spirit is gentle and compassionate. He often says, "I know". Sometimes I feel a hand on my shoulder from Him or Jesus.

They are compassionate...

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24. Your upset is your own self attack

Saturday, Mar 04, 2017 654 words 2 mins 54 secs

When you start getting into a mode where you're talking about how "they" are doing this or that, asking "why" they are doing this or that (as though they shouldn't be), where you're perceiving that "they" are clearly wrong and...

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23. The real world can't hurt you

Sunday, Jan 08, 2017 532 words 2 mins 21 secs

The real world is a symbol, like the rest of what perception offers. Yet it stands for what is opposite to what you made. Your world is seen through eyes of fear, and brings the witnesses of terror to your...

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22. Your attack thoughts about others will attack you

Friday, Jan 06, 2017 781 words 3 mins 28 secs

Here's why having a thought of attack or judgement about someone else automatically includes you and attacks you.

Mind in its natural state is free of all judgements and attacks. It is "empty". It sees reality for what it is with...

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21. Why you agree with other people attacking you

Saturday, Dec 24, 2016 1009 words 4 mins 29 secs

When someone comes along and says something to you which seems hurtful, and if you are affected by it, it is because somewhere inside you you've taken it seriously. That means that you believe there is some truth in it.

If...

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20. What you resist persists

Wednesday, Dec 14, 2016 405 words 1 mins 48 secs

When you be afraid of something, you are attempting to increase a sense of separation between you and something. You hope that if you can separate yourself from it more, you will feel safer.

It doesn't work. It is the opposite.

The...

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19. Realizing that you are the one you are angry at

Monday, Dec 12, 2016 633 words 2 mins 48 secs

As I found myself believing that I was angry with someone, what then came to mind was that both 'that person' and 'me' were two parts contained in my own mind.

It had to be true that I was at war...

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18. Feeling exposed and vulnerable when you blame others

Tuesday, Nov 29, 2016 510 words 2 mins 15 secs

When you believe that something outside of you is the cause of your problem or upset, your mind's perception will start to experience yourself as though part of your being has 'opened up' to the other person, has exposed itself...

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17. Ego attack is really a withdrawal, because the ego is backwards

Saturday, Nov 26, 2016 259 words 1 mins 9 secs

Everything in the ego's mindset looks like one thing but is actually something completely opposite.

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What we call attack, is actually retreat.

God cannot be attacked. When you try to attack God, if you were to go punch God in the face,...

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16. Nobody is doing anything to anyone else, it's all self-attack

Thursday, Nov 24, 2016 2022 words 8 mins 59 secs

The secret to salvation is that "we are doing this only to ourselves". This means taking full responsibility for everything we experience, all of our feelings, all of our reactions. It means owning everything about who and what we really...

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15. You make people look like your enemies

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2016 515 words 2 mins 17 secs

If you perceive that someone out there is your enemy, opposition, separate from you or wrong in some way, you absolutely MUST and WILL simultaneously see yourself as under attack and victimized by them.

It doesn't even matter if they actually...

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14. When you're angry you can't see people correctly

Wednesday, Nov 23, 2016 298 words 1 mins 19 secs

It is not possible to be angry at another person and see the other person correctly.

If you are in any way experiencing the other person as anything other than PURE LOVE, there must be some kind of negative attitude in...

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